In this Sept. 15, 2021 file photo, Lina Eichler, right, stands next to Mephisto in a tent near the Reichstag building in the morning on a scale in Berlin, Germany.. Both have been on hunger strike for climate protection. The German government on Monday urged a group of young climate activists staging a hunger strike outside the chancellery not to endanger their health. Several of the activists have threatened to stop consuming liquids, too, unless the three leading candidates to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor agree to meet them by Thursday evening.
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